Despite months of successive air strikes, Iran is rebuilding its damaged military infrastructure with remarkable skill. From underground missile bases and bridges to factories and ports, Iran is quickly restoring everything to its former state. The US outlet The Wall Street Journal confirmed this in a report on Thursday, citing Israeli and Western officials and satellite imagery. It said Israeli officials had grown quite anxious at Iran’s astonishing rebuilding capacity and rapid recovery.
A Turkish news agency reported on Friday, July 24, that satellite images showed that although the tunnel mouth and road of a missile base in western Iran were damaged last March, a new road and entrance had been built there within a few weeks. Iranian workers repaired a bridge damaged in an Israeli strike in just a few days. In addition, images from early July showed the rebuilding of a shipyard linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps at the port of Bandar Anzali on the Caspian Sea.
A former commander of Israel’s air and missile defence forces, Ran Kochav, acknowledged that Iran had very quickly recovered from the damage and refilled its missile stockpile. Their industrial production and rebuilding capacity is extremely impressive, he said. The US analyst Tal Inbar said: “The information that was spread claiming Iran’s missiles had run out has been proven false.”
Although US President Trump claimed Iran’s army had been “utterly shattered” and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu claimed Iran’s missile-making machinery had been “smashed to pieces,” Israeli military officials are in fact expressing frustration. One Israeli official said with concern: “Iran is rebuilding everything all over again — I really am very worried.” Another official said that in most air strikes only the entrances to the underground bases had collapsed; because the main interior remained intact, they easily recovered the weapons and reopened the tunnel routes.
Rebuilding work is also under way at the missile bases in Dezful and Kermanshah and at Raja Shimi Industries near Tehran. Former CIA analyst Jim Lamson said that although it takes some time to make complex parts, the vast reserves stored in Iran’s underground stockpiles would allow it to produce hundreds of new missiles and drones within a short time.
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